Belmont University’s Curb Event Center was selected to host the 2005 Atlantic Sun Men
BelmontOlympic Preview At The Curb
American gymnast Marlee Shape, photographed by Belmont University staff photographer Michael Krouskop during Olympics preview events Thursday at the Curb Entertainment Center on the Belmont campus.
The Curb is host a portion of the 2004 U.S. Gymnastics Championships 2004 U.S. Gymnastics Championships June 2-5, 2004, an event that will determine national champions and U.S. national team members, and help choose the athletes who will compete at the 2004 U.S. Olympic Trials later that month. The Olympic trials determine the make-up of the U.S. Olympic Team that will compete later this year in Athens, Greece.
The Curb Event Center is hosting the trampoline, tumbling and rhythmic gymnastics events, while the artistic gymnastics events are at the Gaylord Entertainment Center.
CMT, AP Cover Julie Roberts’ Album Debut
The Associated Press is featuring Belmont alum and rising country music star Julie Roberts in a story carried in several papers nationwide this week.
She moved to Nashville in 1999, graduated from Belmont University and got the job at Mercury. Roberts’ Cinderella story was the subject of a Country Music Television special in which cameras followed her around for months as she made the transformation from secretary to country star.
She moved to Nashville in 1999, graduated from Belmont University and got the job at Mercury. Roberts’ Cinderella story was the subject of a Country Music Television special in which cameras followed her around for months as she made the transformation from secretary to country star.The Hartford (Conn.) Courant also recently profiled Roberts.
London Sunday Times Covers Belmont’s 21st annual International Country Music Conference
The Sunday, May 30, edition of the London Times reports from the 21st annual International Country Music Conference on the strange tale of a long-dead fisherman from the Shetland Islands whose recordings are being called “some of the greatest recordings of American music you will hear.” Thomas Fraser’s Grandson Karl Simpson presented a paper on The Legend of Thomas Fraser at the conference last week. The annual conference at Belmont is attended by worldwide authorities on country music.
Brenda Lee Presents Belmont Book Award
Singer Brenda Lee, a member of the Country Music Hall of Fame and the Rock ‘N’ Roll Hall of Fame, presented the 2004 Belmont Book Award to author Alanna Nash, for her book The Colonel: The Extraordinary Story of Colonel Tom Parker and Elvis Presley, a biography Elvis’ famed and controversial manager. The Belmont Book Award is presented annually to the best book about country music.
Thw award was presented Friday at the 21st Annual International Country Music Conference at Belmont. Also honored: Nashville music journalist Craig Havighurst and Australian music journalist Bob Howe, co-winners of the Charlie Lamb Excellence in Country Music Journalism Award for 2004.
Center for Professional Development Offers “Mini MBA”
Belmont University’s Center for Professional Development will launch a new “Mini MBA” program this fall for mid-career professionals seeking to broaden their business skills and expand their knowledge in functional business areas.
The Belmont Mini-MBA program is intended to provide participants with skills and information they need to keep themselves and their organizations competitive. One night per week, students will be immersed for three hours in a “module” focusing on a single critical business discipline that will provide participants an overview and broad survey of subject areas normally found in a business school degree program.
“This is for business and technical professionals aspiring to improve their business skills and business acumen, mid-career professionals who want to update their knowledge and gain fresh insights to management,” Raines said.
Turner Rides Long Black Train to ACM Nomination
Today’s Tennessean has a very nice profile of Josh Turner, a Belmont University alum and nominee for an Academy of Country Music award for best new artist.
Turner, 26, has been playing Long Black Train for years. He wrote it while in college at Belmont and played it for classmates and at church.
”There’s a videotape of my senior recital at Belmont where I was introducing the song and was joking about it,” he said. ”I introduced it by saying, ‘Well, here’s my first No. 1 hit, Long Black Train.’ It never went No. 1, but it’s done a lot of good.”
”This song was for His purpose,” Turner said recently, sitting with his wife, Jennifer, at The Palm restaurant in downtown Nashville. ”I’ve been just kind of an instrument to get it out.”Turner’s debut album has sold more than 678,000 copies, and was the only debut album by a new country artist to go gold (sell 500,000 copies) in 2003. Turner graduated from Belmont in August 2001 with a degree in commercial vocal performance. You can see the video for “Long Black Train” here.
Belmont to Host International Country Music Conference
The 21st Annual International Country Music Conference will be held at Belmont University on Thursday, May 27, through Saturday, May 29, 2004. The academic conference features papers and panels from scholars of country music. Also, the Belmont Book Award for the Best Book on Country Music and the Charlie Lamb Excellence in Country Music Journalism Award will be presented during a luncheon Friday.
McEntire’s New Book Explores Bible’s Death Stories
Dr. Mark McEntire, associate professor of religion at the Belmont University School of Religion, explores the themes of violence and death in the narrative books of the Bible in his new book, Dangerous Worlds: Living and Dying in Biblical Texts, just published by Smyth & Helwys Publishing.
McEntire fourth book examines the stories of life and death found in the Bible, which range from gentle death at a good, old age to starvation to brutal murder. These stories, McEntire says, “invite readers to move back and forth between our own stories and those of the Bible, so that we might live and die faithfully in the dangerous world they form together.”
As we live and die in our own dangerous world, the stories of life and death we encounter in the Bible offer us resources for understanding the most difficult aspect of our existence, he says.
McEntire is also the author of The Blood of Abel: The Violent Plot in the Hebrew Bible, and The Function of Sacrifice in Chronicles, Ezra, and Nehemiah. He is co-author, with John H. Tullock, of The Old Testament Story.
He is available for interviews.
You can read the Introduction to the book here.
